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Combating counterfeit oil level monitors
Two of the oil industry’s largest oil monitoring suppliers – Dunraven Systems and Kingspan Environmental – have issued warnings over the danger of counterfeit products entering the UK and Irish...
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Maxol CEO gets Lifetime Achievement award
...from the awards’ host, Irish radio and television presenter, Miriam O’Callaghan. He told the 350-strong audience that he was delighted to win the award and spoke about his time working...
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Second Texaco support for sport initiative
...sports clubs make to communities and throughout Irish society as a whole. Last year, winning clubs spanned the spectrum of Irish sporting activity. Included were the popular sports of athletics,...
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Products for a greener sector
...186 vehicles from Irish distributor, East Cork Oils, takes the programme’s participants to 13, with fleet sizes ranging from five to almost 200. Having secured €1.4m funding under the Irish...
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Major business win for Maxol
...Haulbowline, Co.Cork, the Irish Naval Services is one of the three standing branches of the Irish Defence Forces. Lieutenant commander Stuart Armstrong commented: “It is imperative that our fleet is...
Insight
No easy decisions at Whitegate
...in the range €21-€29 million per year, assessed as the proportion of the added value generated that would be expected to pass directly to the Irish economy. This is defined...
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Texaco launches its fourth ‘Support for Sport’ club funding initiative
...the initiative is one that recognises and supports the valuable contribution that sports clubs make to communities and throughout Irish society as a whole. Clubs that have received funding to...
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Certa Ireland transitions entire fuel distribution fleet from diesel to HVO
...the initiative, Certa has helped some of Ireland’s largest events to go fossil-free including Electric Picnic, The National Ploughing Championships and the Irish Open. In addition, the company has supplied...
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HVO boost as biofuel boiler wins best renewable energy product
...Grant was also recognised for its innovation in The Irish Times Innovation Awards 2021, where the same product was a finalist in the sustainability category. Leading the way on sustainable...
Opinion
UKIFDA encourages homeowners to start biofuel transition
...heating in their homes through the use of biofuels. The trade association is working with others within the liquid fuels supply chain, including OFTEC, to lobby the UK and Irish...
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Association lobbies for delay on carbon tax increase
The trade association for the liquid fuels sector in Ireland, UKIFDA, has lobbied Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe in a bid to get the Irish government to consider a delay to...
Interview
In Conversation with Klass Oil: a class act in energy distribution
Irish distributor Klass Oil is an independent business with its headquarters in Ashborne, Meath. In a consolidating sector, Klass Oil has grown rapidly over the last few years through a...
Analysis
An industry acquiring
...Irish market and, together with our Emo business and the recent launch of the Certa network, in partnership with Tesco, we are very well placed to service our customers across...
Interview
The battle to offer a competitive product
...heat this winter, writes Irish correspondent Aine Faherty Martin Daly, head of sales and marketing at Top Oil says that a succession of shorter winters, coupled with a short home...
Opinion
Industry alliance leads the way toward zero carbon heating for Ireland
...have been at the forefront of the political agenda in recent years, progress toward the Irish Government’s goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050 has been frustratingly slow. This is...
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FPS warns of the dangers of making early technology decisions for heating
...to the first draft of Ireland’s National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) the Federation of Petroleum Suppliers (FPS) has not only written to Richard Bruton, Irish minister for communications, climate...
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Sold – Esso Ireland’s fuels business
...innovative Irish business and a major Irish employer.” The deal will see Esso Ireland and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Ireland ROC and Esso Ireland Manufacturing Company acquired by Topaz. The...
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DPD Ireland switches to 100% HVO to decarbonise HGV fleet
In an ambitious drive to decarbonise its Irish HGV fleet by 2030, DPD Ireland has deployed Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO) as a replacement fuel for diesel in its heavy goods...